Frequently Asked questions

FMGZone.com focus on customized and reviewed data based of your preference. We do not duplicate information that is already available to you from the program or FREIDA website. However, you see these prgram details right with in the review information by clicking on the link to FREIDA and Program specific to that program.

Service like FMGZone has numerous search options to profile your search, desgined by keeping Foreign Medical Graduates requirements in mind. This will greatly help you pin point the programs that best match your profile and preferences. Where in FREIDA and or Program websites offers limited search options and they are primary for a wider audience focusing US graduates.

It is based on our best estimaed algorithm to assess a program's willingness to accept IMG applicants. The higher the number is the better for IMGs

PCC is the way you can check if a program is compatible to your profile. This especially helpful identifying compatible programs within your NRMP® List of Unfilled Programs during the Post-Match NRMP® Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program® (SOAP®)

Customized list is the programs list matching your profile. You set your medical background in the search box and it is automatically saved into your account and the listed programs stay the same until you change your search criteria. Also you can add programs to your short list so even if you change your criteria, the shortlisted programs stay in your short list. Just click on the favorite star on each program that you may like to add into or remove from the short list.

There are a total of 14 parameters you can set to search the database. However, certain parameters like step 1 and step 1 attempts do not change during your application process so those non volatile factors are to be set to work the algorithm better matach your profile. You can still change most of the items any time you like.

As the name indicates, customized program list is created using the customization matching to your profile settings, however, preferred list is created by adding additional filters as per your preferred criteria you set in the search box.

PCC shortlist is created during the SOAP time. This list will have NRMP unfilled programs compatible to your profile settings. However, Favorite list can be created through out the year while you browse the database using your preferred criteria.

Hospitals offering residency in the US

Specialty offeredNumber of HospitalsNumber of Postions**
Aerospace Medicine57
Anesthesiology1801400
Child Neurology8128
Dermatology145193
Diagnostic Radiology/Nuclear Medicine32
Emergency Medicine290137
Emergency Medicine/Anesthesiology10
Emergency Medicine/Family Medicine35
Family Medicine784647
Family Medicine/Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine10
Family Medicine/Preventive Medicine21
Internal Medicine655660
Internal Medicine/Anesthesiology24
Internal Medicine/Dermatology52
Internal Medicine/Emergency Medicine1216
Internal Medicine/Emergency Medicine/Critical Care Medicine60
Internal Medicine/Medical Genetics and Genomics53
Internal Medicine/Pediatrics770
Internal Medicine/Preventive Medicine56
Internal Medicine/Psychiatry1514
Interventional Radiology-Integrated98116
Laboratory Genetics and Genomics31
Medical Genetics and Genomics4738
Medical Genetics and Genomics/Maternal-Fetal Medicine30
Neurological Surgery117121
Neurology189624
Nuclear Medicine3527
Obstetrics and Gynecology2981231
Ophthalmology126163
Orthopaedic Surgery209513
Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine2514
Other20
Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery131200
Pathology-Anatomic and Clinical143356
Pediatrics218255
Pediatrics/Anesthesiology64
Pediatrics/Emergency Medicine49
Pediatrics/Medical Genetics and Genomics2520
Pediatrics/Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation31
Pediatrics/Psychiatry/Child and Adolescent Psychiatry1018
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation112303
Plastic Surgery4922
Plastic Surgery-Integrated89120
Psychiatry33413
Psychiatry/Family Medicine68
Psychiatry/Neurology44
Public Health and General Preventive Medicine4260
Radiation Oncology89105
Radiology-Diagnostic197808
Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility/Medical Genetics and Genomics10
Surgery-General3662072
Surgery-General - Preliminary Track10
Thoracic Surgery-Integrated3629
Transitional Year2011014
Urology150180
Vascular Surgery-Integrated7859


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Top IMG Friendly Specialties by percentage in USA
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